Gloucestershire Young Carers offers support to young carers aged 8 to 25 by creating a network of support across the county and ensuring service providers understand and address their needs. Many young carers are isolated and unable to enjoy opportunities or speak to others about their experiences as caregivers. GYC aims to provide local activity groups and transportation to give young carers a break from caring and opportunities for fun. Their challenge is to update their web presence and create social media marketing campaigns to raise awareness and funding, while establishing guidelines and safeguards to protect young people when using social media.

1. Gloucestershire Young Carers offers support to young carers from 8 to 25
years of age, aiming to:
1. To create a network of support for young carers across the county
2. To work with them to ensure service providers understand their
needs and respond appropriately

2. Many young carers are isolated - unable to enjoy opportunities to take a break
from their caring role, with no one to talk to about their experiences, often
overlooked by the agencies that enter their home to help their family member
GYC want to put the 'young' back into Young Carer by not only providing local
activity groups where they can drop in to have fun, but also by providing transport
to get them to the groups

3. Our challenge is to work with them to....
1. update their web presence
to enable them to create web-based marketing campaigns that raise awareness
and funding for the charity using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
2. create a policy and set of guidelines around these projects
to ensure that there are safeguards in place when the programmes are rolled out
so that everything they do with social media protects young people and does not
put them at risk in any way